Machine fob attaching hooks and eyes to cards



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E A. GAPRON su J. s. DENNIS. MACHINE FOR EASTENING BOOKS 0R EYES ORIVARIOUS ARTICLES yT0 A GARD 0R SHEET.

No. 13,409. f Patented Aug. v, 185s..

l Y '3 Sheets-Sheet 2. A.CAPRON 8u J. S. DENNIS. MACHINE EUR FASTENING BOOKS 0E.l EYES 0R VARIOUS ARTIULES T0 A GARD 0R SHEB'I. No. 13.409.

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A. GAPRON & J. S. DENNIS. MACHINE ron FASTBNING Hooxs on sus on vuuous An'rIcLEs To A GARD on SHEET.

No. 13,409. Patented Aug. 7, 1855.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

JOSEPH S. DENNIS, OF SOMERVILLE, AND ADDISON CAPRON, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR ATTACHING- HOOKS AND EYES TO CARDS.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 13,409, dated August 7, 18.55.

To all 10h-0m t 'may concern Be it known that we, JOSEPH S. DENNIS, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex, and ADDISON Carnon, of Attleboro, in the county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Machine for Fastening Hooks and Eyes or Various other Articles to a Card or Sheet; and we do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of such drawings, Figure, l, exhibits a top view of my Said machine-Fig., 2, is a front elevation of it-Fig.,3, a vertical section taken through the feeding receiver and longitudinally with respect to the same. Fig., 4, is a transverse and vertical section taken through one of the upright sewing needles. Fig., 5, is an underside view of the machine-Fig., 6, is an end elevation of it. i

A, in the drawings, denotes the bed or t-able by which the main operative parts are Sustained. At some distance above the bed are two horizontal shafts B, C, (see Figs., l, and 2) which are arranged paral* lel to one another and are supported by standards D, D, D, D, erected on and above the bed. Each of these shafts carries a grooved wheel, E, or, F, such wheels serving to support the feeding receiver, G, which consists of an endless chain, each link of which is of the same dimensions and is provided with one or more suitable recesses, b, for the reception of a hook and an eye or the article or articles which by the machine are to be fixed to a card or sheet.

Vhile the lower surface of t-he feeding receiver rests and moves upon a horizontal plate H, the uppermost part of the endless chain is supported in and by a straight and grooved rail, I, which is extended between the two grooved wheels, E, F, as seen in Figs. l and 2, such rail being supported by means of stationary standards K, K. Vhile the Outer horizontal surface of the endless feeding receiver, G, in a transverse direction is made even or in the same plane with that of the grooved rail, I, and also with the periphery of each of the grooved wheels E, F, such rail and such grooved wheels are grooved out on each side of the chain as seen at, c, c, in order that a hook and an eye when hooked together and placed in their recesses a, o, may extend out of said recesses and across the line or lines in which they are to be stitched or sewed to a card or sheet placed upon the plate H. The grooves c, c, also serve to aid in keeping the hooks and eyes in their places in their carrier or feeding receiver, G.

Connected with the grooved rail, I, and extending from thence and around the grooved wheel F, as seen in Fig., 1, is a metallic band or cover, M. It lies close against the periphery of the wheel, F and extends down to the plate, I, and prevents the hooks and eyes or articles laid within the recesses of the feeding receiver, G, from falling out of said recesses while passing around the wheel. During their passage around the wheel or from its upper to its lower part, the hooks and eyes are turned over in such manner as to be deposited upon a sheet or card which may be upon the horizontal plate H and between the same and that horizontal part of the feeding receiver G which is immediately above and next to the ,said plate. The said card or sheet of whatever material it may be is moved along upon the plate, H, with the feeding receiver, G, both being moved with t-he same intermittenty motion. In order to produce such a movement of the card or pattern sheet, the grooved wheel, F, has placed directly underneath it a feeding roller as seen at, N, Fig., 3, such roller being made to work through a slot, O, formed transversely through the plate, H. A horizontal shaft, P, carries said feeding roller as seen in Fig., 6, such shaft also bears a ratchet Q, and a pinion or small gear R. This latter engages with a larger gear, S, fixed upon the shaft, C, rotary motion being communicated by such gears R and S, to the said shaft, C, and for the purpose of operating or moving the feeding receiver. In combination with the said feeding receiver and the contrivance for moving the pattern card along on the upper surface of the plate, H, we employ mechanism for sewing to the pattern card the hooks and eyes or articles'carried by it: and for this purpose we make use of any suitable apparatus for accomplishing such result and we arrange it so that its needle or needles may work or operate on either one or both sides of that part of the feeding receiver resting upon the pattern card.

In the drawings, we have exhibited two needles, T, and U, one of them being disposed in front of and the other in rear of the feeding receiver Gr. Each of these needles is supported in the end of a car rier V. Each needle carrier, V, is supported by a stationary arm or gooseneck, W, or X, which is atlixed to and made to extend above the table A. The said arm also serves to carry a lever by which the carrier, V, has vertical motions given to it, such lever being represented at V, in Fig. 4.

In Fig. 5, the two levers of the two carriers, V, V, are shown in connection with their operative cams Z, Z, such cams being fixed respectively to two horizontal shafts Z, m, which by means of their gears 1t, 0, p, receive motion from a driving shaft, g, the said gears and shafts being respectively ex hibited in Fig. 5.

The sewing mechanism which we have exhibited in the drawings is of the kind described in the patent of Grover and Baker which bears vdate the 22nd of June 1852, there being applied to each vertical needle a curved needle, fr, arranged to turn' horizontally. The said curved needle is worked by a vertical shaft, s, upon the lower end of which is a pinion t, that engages with a toothed sector u, operated by a cam, o, there being such a cam with its sector applied to each of the shafts, Z, m. A cam w, on the shaft Z, operates against a slide that carries an impelling pawl, y, which is borne against the teeth of the ratchet, Q, by means of the spring, z, the same serving to so operate said ratchet as to impart to the feeding apparatus and the receiver, G, such an intermittent motion as may be necessary for feeding the pattern card and the hooks and eyes along under the operation of the needles.

In Fig. 7, there is exhibited a piece of cord, with the hooks and eyes arranged and fastened thereon as such is accomplished by my machine; lines of sewing being seen at a', a. In order that there may be two or more rows of hooks and eyes affixed to a card, the supporting plate H, should be so applied to the bed or table, A, as to enable such plate to be moved transversely on the table and under the vertical needles as occasion may require, such .table being provided with a line of holes (as seen at b, b, b', in Figs. l, and 4c, to each of the vertical needles). These holes are to be disposed at such distances apart as may enable the needle to work through the plate, when sewng any row of articles upon the pattern car In the drawings, we have represented the plate, H, as having two sliding rack bars, c', cf, extending back from and working respectively in gears d d fixed upon a horizontal shaft, c. Such shaft carries a spring index or crank, f, which works up on a curved indented arc or gage plate g, arranged as seen in Fig. 6. By means of the said mechanism last described, the plate, H,

may be moved transversely and fixed in position as occasion may require.

By suitable changes of form in the recesses of the feeding receiver, the machine might be employed to sew various kinds of buttons or other small articles upon sheets or cards. By making the feeding receiver as an endless chain (provided with recesses or their equivalents for receiving the articles and maintaining them at their proper distances asunder) and combining with it a metallic band M, the hooks and eyes can be laid upon it with great facility while the` vertical needles are arranged above the table.

We claim-d The above described combination or other substantially the same of a feeding receiver, made to receive the articles and maintain them at proper distances asunder, a card or sheet feeding mechanism, and sew ing machinery on one or on both sides of said receiver. y

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our signatures this eighth day of May JOSEPH S. DENNIS. ADDISON CAPRON. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr. 

